Nowadays, given the great deal of fossil fuel consumption and associated environmental pollution, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have shown their great merits in terms of high energy conversion efficiency and low emissions as a stationary power sourc...
The fuel cell engine mechanism model is used to research fault diagnosis based on a data-driven method to identify the failure of proton exchange membrane fuel cells in the process of operation, which leads to the degradation of system performance an...
Enhancing system durability and fuel economy stands as a crucial factor in the energy management of fuel cell hybrid vehicles. This paper proposes an Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS) based on the Genetic Algorithm (GA), aiming to m...
Fuel cell electric vehicles offer a short fuel charging time and high mileage, but require precise thermal management technology to ensure the durability and efficiency of the stack. Accordingly, the size and weight of the heat exchanger increase to...
Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) fuel cells is a technology successfully used in the production of energy from hydrogen, allowing the use of hydrogen as an energy vector. It is scalable for stationary and mobile applications. However, the t...
To enhance the safety and reliability of fuel cell vehicles, a remote monitoring system based on 5th generation (5G) mobile networks and controller area networks (CANs) was designed, and a random forest (RF) algorithm for the fault diagnosis for eigh...
The applications of evolutionary optimizers such as genetic algorithms, differential evolution, and various swarm optimizers to the parameter estimation of the fuel cell polarization curve models have increased. This study takes a novel approach on u...
Due to the low efficiency and high pollution of conventional internal combustion engine vehicles, the fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles are expected to play a key role in the future of clean energy transportation attributed to the long driving range...
The flow channel design of bipolar plates plays a significant role in the proton exchange membrane fuel cells operation, particularly in thermal and water management. The pursuit of low-pressure drop supply and flow field uniformity in PEM fuel cells...
The knowledge of the electrochemical processes inside a Fuel Cell (FC) is useful for improving FC diagnostics, and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is one of the most used techniques for electrochemical characterization. This paper aims t...
This paper presents a new control strategy for isolated micro-grids including wind turbines (WT), fuel cells (FC), photo-voltaic (PV) and battery energy storage systems (BESS). FC have been used in parallel with BESSs in order to increase their lifet...
Performance and economic efficiency of the fuel cell (FC)/battery/super capacitor (SC) hybrid 100% low-floor tramcar is mainly determined by its energy management strategy. In this paper, a train traction model was built to calculate the power output...
In recent years, fuel cell (FC) technology has seen a promising increase in its proportion in stationary power production. Several pilot projects are in operation across the world, with the number of running hours steadily rising, either as stand-alo...
The present environmental and economic conditions call for the increased use of hybrid energy resources and, concurrently, recent developments in combined heat and power (CHP) systems enable their use at a domestic level. In this work, the optimal sc...
This paper presents a nonlinear control strategy utilizing the linearization and input-output decoupling approach for a nonlinear dynamic model of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The multiple-input single-output (MISO) nonlinear model...
The prediction of stack output power in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems is a key technology that urgently needs improvement, which will promote SOFC systems towards high-power multi-stack applications. The accuracy of power prediction directly d...
The operation of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is greatly affected by temperature. Reliable thermal management of fuel cells can improve the life, efficiency, and power output of fuel cells. The model established in this paper is based...
Designing solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs) involves a large discrete design space spanning MOSFET type, bypass configuration, and heatsink selection. This work formulates SSCB design as a multi-objective combinatorial optimisation problem that mi...
Online/on-board diagnosis would help to improve fuel cell system durability and output power. Therefore, it is a feature the manufacturers may wish to provide for final users to increase the attractiveness of their product. This add-on requires suita...
This paper presents an integrated overcurrent relays coordination approach for an Egyptian electric power distribution system. The protection scheme suits all network topologies, including adding distribution generation units (DGs) and creating new p...
Green hydrogen technology has recently gained in popularity due to the current economic and ecological trends that aim to remove the fossil fuels share in the energy mix. Among various alternatives, biogas reforming is an attractive choice for hydrog...
Biomimetics has been used to improve performance in several fields of engineering. For flow fields, Murray’s Law has been used to explore branching of channels that carry reactants and products. The applicability of Murray’s Law to flow fields was ex...
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are considered to be a promising solution for clean energy conversion in hydrogen electric vehicles. Accurate voltage prediction is crucial for designing efficient energy management and control strategies....
Facing the complex coupled process of thermal mass transfer and electrochemical reaction inside fuel cells, the development of a one-dimensional model is an efficient solution to study the influence of mass transfer property parameters on the transfe...
This paper presents an alternative approach to the flow control of an oxidizer in a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell system in which pure oxygen is the gas supplied to the cathode channel of the stack. The proposed oxygen flow control is impl...
To address the limitations of conventional single-stack fuel cell hybrid systems using equivalent hydrogen consumption strategies, this study proposes a multi-stack energy management strategy incorporating fuel cell health degradation. Leveraging a f...
The fossil fuel crisis is a major concern across the globe, and fossil fuels are being exhausted day by day. It is essential to promptly change from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources for transportation applications as they make a major contr...
In this paper, an experimental fuel cell/battery/supercapacitor hybrid system is investigated in terms of modeling and power management design and optimization. The power management strategy is designed based on the role that should be played by each...
For commercial applications, the durability and economy of the fuel cell hybrid system have become obstacles to be overcome, which are not only affected by the performance of core materials and components, but also closely related to the energy manag...
The present study introduces an economical–functional design for a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell system. To do so, after introducing the optimization problem and solving the problem based on the presented equations in the fuel cell, a cost m...
Nowadays, many aircraft manufacturers are working on new airplanes to reduce the environmental footprint and therefore meet greenhouse gas reduction targets. The concept of more electric aircraft is one of the solutions to achieve this goal. For this...
In this work, a design optimization study was conducted to improve the performance of a membraneless microfluidic fuel cell with a double-bridge cross-section of the flow channel. Governing equations including Navier–Stokes, mass-transport, and...
A small-scale, decentralized hybrid system is proposed for autonomous operation in a commercial building (small hotel). The study attempts to provide a potential solution, which will be attractive both in terms of efficiency and economics. The propos...
In the revolution of green energy development, microgrids with renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and fuel cells are becoming a popular and effective way of controlling and managing these sources. On the other hand, owing to the intermitten...
This work presents the operation of an autonomous direct current (DC) DC microgrid for residential house controlled by an energy management system based on low complexity fuzzy logic controller of only 25-rules to manage the power flow that supply ho...
The reliability and durability of the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are vital factors restricting their applications. Therefore, establishing an online fault diagnosis system is of great significance. In this paper, a multi-stage fault di...
The results of a study on incorporating solar-thermal collectors into a hybrid renewable energy system are reported. A photovoltaic–wind turbine–fuel cell–solar-thermal collector system is designed and an economic model is introduced for supplying th...
A feasible solid oxide fuel cell–gas turbine–organic Rankine cycle (SOFC-GT-ORC) hybrid system for ammonia-fueled ships is presented in this study. To confirm the quantitative changes in thermodynamic performance and economics according t...
Driven by carbon neutrality and peak carbon policies, hydrogen energy, due to its zero-emission and renewable properties, is increasingly being used in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (H-FCVs). However, the high cost and limited durability of H-FCVs hind...
The turbocharging of hydrogen fuel cell systems (FCSs) has recently become a prominent research area, aiming to improve FCS efficiency to help decarbonise the energy and transport sectors. This work compares the performance of an electrically assiste...
Solar power generation is intermittent in nature. It is nearly impossible for a photovoltaic (PV) system to supply power continuously and consistently to a varying load. Operating a controllable source like a fuel cell in parallel with PV can be a so...
Perovskite materials have high potential for the renewable energy sources such as solar PV cells, fuel cells, etc. Different structural distortions such as crystal structure and lattice parameters have a critical impact on the determination of the pe...
This paper addresses the issues of nonlinearity and coupling between anode pressure and cathode pressure in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) gas supply systems. A fuzzy adaptive PI decoupling control strategy with an improved advanced genet...
This study introduces a health-aware fuzzy logic (FL) energy management strategy (EMS) for fuel cell electric commercial vehicles (FCECVs) that aimed to improve energy efficiency and extending fuel cell system (FCS) lifespan. The FL-based EMS was dev...
To accurately investigate the loss characteristics of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) under actual operating conditions and enhance their power performance and economic efficiency, this study establishes a numerical model of the proton exchange membrane fu...
This paper addresses the challenge of renewable energy curtailment, which stems from the inherent uncertainty and volatility of wind and photovoltaic (PV) generation, by developing a robust model predictive control (RMPC)-based scheduling strategy fo...
The design and operational conditions of high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells (HT-PEMFCs) substantially impact their performance. This model aims to investigate the influence of various parameters on the performance of HT-PEMFC. A com...
To further improve the performance of the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), in this paper, we designed a blocked flow channel with trapezoidal baffles, and geometric parameters of the baffle were optimized based on CFD simulation, Artificia...
Conventional evolutionary optimization techniques often struggle with finding global optima, getting stuck in local optima instead, and can be sensitive to initial conditions and parameter settings. Efficient Distributed Generation (DG) allocation in...
Utilization of renewable energy (e.g., wind, solar, bio-energy) is high on international and governmental agendas. In order to address energy poverty and increase energy efficiency for rural villages, a hybrid distribution generation (DG) system incl...
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